Elevator-bucket



(No Model.)

W. MILD.

ELEVATOR BUCKET- No. 340,889. Patented Apr. 27, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VILLIAM MILD, OF HAMILTON, OHIO.

ELEVATOR-BUCKET.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,889, dated April 27, 1886.

Application filed October 7, 1885. Serial No. 179,211. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, XVILLIAM MILD, of Hamilton, in the county of Butler and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Elevator-Buckets, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to the class of waterelevators which have an endless chain suspended to some form of sprocket-wheel at the top of the well or cistern, the chain having buckets secured to it at intervals, the water being raised by revolving the wheel at the top, which causes the chain to carry the buckets up and over the wheel and discharge themselves into a spout especially constructed for the purpose.

The special objects are to so construct the buckets that less waste will take place at the time of discharge, and that the several parts of the chain and manner-0f connecting the buckets will be such that the apparatus will be more durable than any in use heretofore.

Figure 1 is a side View of the general construction. Fig. 2 is a view of the combination of round and plate links. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of one of the buckets, showing its general construction. Fig. 4 is a view of one of the wings to which the buckets are attached. Fig. 5 is a view of a bucket and ring attached to one of the plate-links of the chain, the bucket being shown as descending into the water.

A is a sprocket-wheel, around which the chain having buckets B is hung. There is a rim, 0, standing up around three-quartersof the circumference on the bottom, as shown in Fig. 3, the high side being next to the chain and the open side next to the spout. Itis for the purpose of directing the water discharged from the buckets to the spout, and to prevent the waste which is usual with this method of raising water.

The action of the water on the bottom of a bucket, when being discharged from the next bucket above it, is clearly shown in Fig.1, where one of the buckets, B, is being discharged into the spout D, when part of the water is pouring from the bucket perpendicularly, striking the bottom of the next bucket below and being confined next to the chain, and laterally from slipping off by the rim 0, it is deflected out of the opening of the rim and into the spout, as shown.

The buckets Bare made of a slightly-conical shape, and are secured to the flat links of the chain by ring, E. This ring is provided with a dovetail-shaped projection on one side, G, which engages in a tapered slot, I, andis forced to the bottom of it, as shown at J, Fig. 5, where, by finally riveting the projection, it will be secured to the flat link F. The bucket is held in the ring by soldering, or any other simple method of securing it. Round loop-links K connect the flat links F at regular intervals, the buckets usually being of a distance equal to the pitch of the sprockets on the wheel A.

This arrangement of buckets will discharge about as much water in a given time as is required of a pump for domestic purposes.

Vhat I claim as my invention is 1. The flat link F, having a dovetailed slot, I, to receive a. projection, G, of a ring, E, when said ring is used for securing said elevatorbuckets to the chain, substantially as herein set forth.

2. The combination of the slotted flat links F with the round loop-links K, ring E, and conical buckets B, the whole arranged as and for the purpose substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I- August, 1885, in the presence of witnesses.

\VILLIAM MILD.

lVitnesses:

TM. B. JONES, J. S. Z RBE.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 340,889, granted April 27, 1886, upon a the application of William Mild, of Hamilton, Ohio, for an improvement in Elevator- Buckets, errors appear in the printed specification requiring correction, as follows: In

line 32, page 1, the Words descending into should read ascending from; in line 60,

same page, the word at and reference letter J should be stricken out; and that the Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein to make it conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed, oountersigned, and sealed this 25th day of May, A. D. 1886.

[SEAL] H. L. MULDROW,

- Acting Secretary of the Interior Countersigned:

M. V. MoN'rGoMERY,

Commissioner of Patents. 

